Everything about Anne Hyde totally explained
Lady Anne Hyde (March
1637 –
31 March 1671), daughter of
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and his wife,
Frances Aylesbury, became the first wife of James, Duke of York (the future King
James II of England and VII of Scotland), and the mother of two queens,
Mary II of England and
Anne of Great Britain.
She was born, on either
12 March or
22 March 1637, at
Windsor,
Berkshire, to Frances (daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Master of Requests) and to Sir
Edward Hyde (later -- from 1661 -- 1st
Earl of Clarendon) of the Hyde of
Norbury family. In
1659, at
Breda in the
Netherlands, she allegedly married James, then Duke of York, in a secret ceremony. The royal family at this time remained in exile following the
English Civil War, and Anne's father served as the loyal Royalist chief adviser to the prospective King
Charles II of England, James's elder brother.
The couple went through an official marriage ceremony on
3 September 1660, in
London, following the
Restoration of the
monarchy. Their first child, Charles, was born less than two months later, but died in infancy, as did five further sons and daughters. Only two daughters survived:
Mary (born
30 April 1662) and
Anne (born
6 February 1665). A few weeks after the birth of their youngest child, Anne died of
cancer at
St. James's Palace and was buried in
Westminster Abbey. According to the
Dictionary of National Biography, she gave birth to "her eighth child, a daughter, on
9 February 1671, but by now her fatal illness, probably
breast cancer, was in an advanced stage."
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Late in her life,
the Duchess of York secretly converted to
Catholicism, much to the horror of her staunchly
Anglican family. After her death her widower also converted to the Roman Catholic faith (
circa 1672). At the order of James's older brother King Charles, however, James and Anne's daughters received a
Protestant education.
King James suffered deposition in a
revolution against his Catholic rule in
1688, and Anne Hyde's daughter Mary and her son-in-law,
William of Orange, jointly assumed the throne. After James, no British King or Queen has affirmed belief in the Catholic faith.
After Anne Hyde, no other Englishwoman would marry an heir presumptive or heir apparent to the British throne until the marriage of
Lady Diana Spencer to
Charles, Prince of Wales in
1981.
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